Jacaranda: Celebrating Zim’s ‘purple tree’

By Simon Ngena OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout the world and is synonymous with the colour pink. It is also the month during which Zimbabwe pays tribute to one of its most ornamental trees — the jacaranda — which blooms into a riot of purple in October, come rain, sunshine or snow.A genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, the jacaranda tree is one of the most common exotic trees in Zimbabwe's urban areas.The City of Harare is particularly well known for its ornamental jacarandas,...

Zimbabwe’s booming informal sector sector …the engine for economic growth, development

By Shephard Majengeta THE informal sector, often dismissed as peripheral and chaotic, is an indispensable pillar of Zimbabwe’s economy. It has emerged as a critical source of livelihood for millions of Zimbabweans. Not only is it a survival strategy but a dynamic engine of economic...

This is an abridged version of an article that was first published in The Patriot on May 29 2020

By Dr Tafataona Mahoso DOMINANT elites in Zimbabwe’s economic history have always relied on pushing...

The story of Prophet Enoch and Joseph. . . missing link on the Motherland

By Nthungo YaAfrika BEFORE I delve into the above topic, I want to add to...

Bira Rembira lives up to its billing

By Fidelis Manyange IT was rude awakening for the prophets of doom who had written...

Artistes’ feuds: Real orstage-managed?

By Fidelis Manyange EARLIER this year, rapper Kikky Badass (real name Christabell Stembeni Mahlungwa) dissed...

CIMAS launches health on wheels

By Kundai Marunya THE CIMAS Health Group has launched a well-equipped and professionally staffed mobile...

Mpox outbreak raises concerns

By Elizabeth Sitotombe THE Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has declared...

‘New Life’ for rural goat farmers

By Kundai Marunya JABULA New Life Covenant Church is on a drive to change the...

Farming runs in Jiti’s DNA

By Fidelis Manyange DESPITE losing her husband in a car accident two decades ago, Macheke...

Magaya at the ‘Heart’ of women’s soccer…as thrilling 16-team roars to life

By Sheldon Hakata HEART Group Company owner Prophet Walter Magaya is a passionate advocate of...

Go our resurgent Warriors Go! … can we dare to dream again?

ARE the Warriors back and the ‘Worriers’ a thing of the past? With...

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Soccer refs must up their game

IT is disheartening that ‘biased’ referees have been singled out as the chief culprits...

SONA is just what the doctor ordered

Editors note with Proffesor Pfukwa PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) was...

41 000 Palestinians dead, 96 000 injured. . . as cloud hands over International Non-Violence Day

AS the world marked the 17th anniversary of the International Day of Non-Violence on November 2,...

No-one will die of hunger,nation assured

By Vimbai Malinganiza SPORADIC and low rainfall patterns in Zimbabwe in recent years have led...

‘New Life’ for rural goat farmers

By Kundai Marunya JABULA New Life Covenant Church is on a drive to change the...

Bira Rembira lives up to its billing

By Fidelis Manyange IT was rude awakening for the prophets of doom who had written...
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